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Never Read - Peace Of Mind By Cleaning Your "Read Later" Backlog
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Description

Every day we surf the web, check our Twitter timeline and gather information through numerous other services on the internet. Quite often we can't make the time to read articles we think of as being interesting to us right away. Instead we use "read later" services such as Pocket to store them for another time.

Faster than we'd like we have accumulated a tremendous amount of unread articles. This mountain of articles quickly raises to a height which makes it practically impossible to catch up. A big chunk of it probably isn't even worth reading through anymore.

Never Read is the app to help clearing the mountain of unread articles for you. It will save you from the pressure that a huge backlog of articles can have on you by deleting unread articles that are older than 30 days (or almost any other number of days you tell it to).

The idea is simple: If you haven't had time to read an article within the specified time it probably isn't interesting enough to you in the first place. The chance for you to ever going to read it trending towards zero. Never Read will delete those articles for you to give you peace of mind.

As a nice side effect the time limit introduced by Never Read will gently keep you on your toes. You're going to make the time to read those really interesting articles you've saved before if you don't want them to be deleted unread.

If you would like to keep selected articles from being deleted, simply archive or favorite them. Never Read is designed to only delete items in your "unreads" list that are not favorited. It will never touch your archives.

Disclaimer:

Be aware that Never Read is brutal in the sense that it is actually deleting items from your account. It is not possible to restore deleted items.

I can't guarantee that Never Read will work without problems on your computer. Never Read might delete items from your account which you would have liked to keep due to misuse or program errors. I created Never Read primarily for my own use and I am offering it free of charge in case others might find it useful as well. If you download and use Never Read you do so on your own risk.

What's New

Version History

1.1.1

May 27, 2016

* Minor bugfixes

If you find Never Read helpful, please consider rating it in iTunes or supporting its development with a small patronage. I'll greatly appreciate it. Patronage is accessible from the Preferences menu.

1.1

Mar 14, 2016

* Added an item to the dropdown menu to see the titles of the items deleted within the past 7 days* Last chance to visit the URL of an item deleted within the past 7 days by clicking its title in the "Recently Deleted..." submenu* Possibility to support the development of Never Read with a small patronage.

If you find Never Read helpful, please consider supporting its development with a small patronage. I'll greatly appreciate it. Accessible from the Preferences menu.

1.0.4

Mar 7, 2016

* Fixes a crash occuring when there is no items in Pocket.

1.0.3

Jul 8, 2015

* Fixes a bug where "open automatically at login" would not work.* Fixes a bug where the preference window would always be hidden behind other windows.* Fixes a crash which could happen during logging in to Pocket.

1.0.2

Jun 20, 2015

May 27, 2016

Version 1.1.1

* Minor bugfixes

If you find Never Read helpful, please consider rating it in iTunes or supporting its development with a small patronage. I'll greatly appreciate it. Patronage is accessible from the Preferences menu.